The Hidden Villain of Global Warming—The Pentagon

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14. True story...

When I was in the Navy I flew in P3C as an ASW Operator. When in the states we would train/drill constantly and one of the drills you had to go through every so often was emergency fuel jettison. Well at the end of the fiscal year, the military in all it's efficiency has to use up every last dollar for training, fuel, supplies so that the next year they would be allocated enough. This of course lays the way for massive waste. So one of our things at the end of the fiscal year was each crew would fly loaded with fuel, go offshore (Maine) and begin dumping fuel. This helped to use up our remaining allocation for fuel but it also contaminated the ocean/air and wasted hundreds of thousands of pounds of fuel.

So not only do we have the largest defense budget ever, we get nothing for much of it.